tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post5512354832897139336..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: GLASTONBURY, ENTERTAINMENT'S CESSPIT. call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-30953347469956840732014-07-04T02:07:06.212+01:002014-07-04T02:07:06.212+01:00Dunno about Gambo, Sir Cliff is the current underg...Dunno about Gambo, Sir Cliff is the current underground favourite for exposure, but when Gambo first made his announcement that he didn't speak up about Sir James because it would harm his own career I thought he should be carted off to jail, just for that. <br /><br /> Johnny Cash escapes me, I'm afraid, I liked Folsom Prison Blues but that was it. I know lots of people do but I didn't like his voice, didn't like his playing, didn't like his face. Just contrast his dire, dum-diddy-dum-diddy dum-diddy-dum with the country-hillbilly-blues of Solomon Burke, David Rawlings and Gillian Welsh on the current Evensong,. It's a free country here, you don't have to like it but, as sick old men singing goes, this kicks the Man in Black up and down the sidewalk.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-51761640904141503682014-07-04T01:35:38.528+01:002014-07-04T01:35:38.528+01:00I Youtubed Dolly at Glastonbury and was duly disap...I Youtubed Dolly at Glastonbury and was duly disappointed but it spurred me onto Johny Cash which made up for it.<br /><br />As someone pointed out on the radio no-one ever liked Jimmy Saville (or Saville as we must now call him just like the disgraced in the USSR) because he was always a smarmy cunt just like Hall who was only for old people.<br /><br />Rolf, sorry, HARRIS though was different, I for one liked him and his stuff on 1970's telly.<br /><br />How is it going for Paul, or is he just Gambaccini now?bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-14230608582751615012014-07-02T20:36:10.410+01:002014-07-02T20:36:10.410+01:00I know tampering with kids is bad and stuff and it...I know tampering with kids is bad and stuff and it's only about time that perps be prevented and ended but let's be fucking frank - social service departments have been pimping kids in every town for at least 30 years.<br /><br /> All these 'asian take away' paedo rings are because they started selling dodgy crack. I walk past 2 crackdens on the way to work and they've got carpets now - a decent relationship from the Chief Super to the dealer and everyone's happy. Police & Crime Commissioners were an expensive buffer but is paedo action that prevalent?<br /><br /> This Leon Britton thing is a good story though. Nick Clegg used to work for him and apparently Sir Nick Clegg - his daddy (I shit you not, Nick Clegg is named after his daddy!) got him his first job in the European office of.....dun dun dun....yes, you guessed it...Sir Leon Britton?<br /><br /> Anyway, nice that Rebecca's been cleared, eh? Ah, fair play to the girl - she dealt in smut but it comes both ways. <br /><br /> Guido von Fawkes has got a thing going against some Tory MP for beating his then girlfriend and it's kind of sweet. If it's victim politics that's the fore topic then introspection is fine. There is something going on with politics when we have libraries at our fingertips. The War Administration sounds a lot less spectacular when it's Neville pressing print. <br /><br /> Defo have Rolf as the biggest ever Glasto gig - 140,000 i think - and that must send anyone a little bit mental and he went paedo? Kids TeeVee must fuck people up too. UUrrggghh - Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71787622078146519262014-07-02T16:54:52.956+01:002014-07-02T16:54:52.956+01:00Thanks for the invite to view cliff richards and l...Thanks for the invite to view cliff richards and leon brittan's preferred sexual depravities, but I think I'll give it a miss. <br />The once loved Labour party are no less guilty, google Labour 25, a whole shitfest of them from Harman downwards. <br />It appears that there is no end from Beasting, no matter what colour rossette. inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54137489168514036742014-07-02T14:07:25.230+01:002014-07-02T14:07:25.230+01:00I believe it to be worse, darker, than you paint i...I believe it to be worse, darker, than you paint it, mr alphons, and that the touted remedy, the ballot box, only makes matters even worse; MediaMinster simply will not permit the election of any who might tear it down and although few would disagree with your summary even fewer would relish a revolution.<br /><br />As for the New People, whose future we here discuss, and who should be agitating and disrupting, they are Smartphoned and Facebooked into quiescence, Fuck 'em, maybe they'll wake up when the Chinks own the entire country, when it's too late.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79225531446574519242014-07-02T13:49:30.905+01:002014-07-02T13:49:30.905+01:00Any discomfort for Leon is welcome, mr vincent but...Any discomfort for Leon is welcome, mr vincent but can they throw him to the wolves?<br />Such a thing would lead, eventually, to the desanctification of Whisky Maggie and her whole crew; I noticed Michael Howard looking a bit crook, just now, on the telly; what would Lord Tebbit say, playing his greatest hits, over there, at the Filth-o-Graph? What about Tarzan, he always hated Leon, was that why? Douggie Hurd, he and Pauline Neville Jones made ten million pounds, working as Slobodan's bankers and should be in jail anyway, how would it be if it emerged that all of Thatcher's crime family were not only thieves - which few would doubt - but were also beasts or beast-minders? <br /><br />Nah, it'll never happen.callmeisnmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48909972590851967212014-07-02T13:44:20.537+01:002014-07-02T13:44:20.537+01:00I feel I have written this before, maybe in slight...I feel I have written this before, maybe in slightly different words, but I make no apology for writing it again, because, as I see it, until the situation is altered there is no hope of our becoming a civilised and responsible class of beings.<br /><br />The problem is that no one, from the top to the bottom of society (irrespective of which end you look at as top or bottom), is ever held totally responsible for the result of their actions.<br /><br />It matters not whether you have insurance that will pay out (as little as possible) for the result of your driving error, the family of the driver you have just killed will not be able to provide for his family. Yet, despite you being responsible for his death, the monetary responsibility for his family will be carried by others (through insurance co. and welfare state, as miserly as possible.).<br /><br />It matters not if you are a Prime Minister who starts a war with another country, and looses millions of pounds and thousands of lives, because the responsibility for it will lie with the other country, and they will be responsible for the cost (which will of course be passed down to us the public). <br /><br />It matters not if, as a minister of state, you foul up the lives of millions, load the public with Billions of pounds worth of PFI (etc.) debt, because that debt will be carried by others.<br /><br />It matters not if as a councillor or M.P. you push through measures completely at variance with the wishes of Joe Public because all the debt will be carried by others.<br /><br />If you go and hijack the local corner store will you be required to recompense the shopkeeper for all the damage and loot? <br /><br />The prisons are full of people who have had their responsibility removed in exchange for a spell at Her Majesty's Pleasure (although she is totally ignorant of it) and society is full of people who know that their responsibility will be waived similarly, should they get caught, and many know they will not get caught because the money needed for this is being dispersed in other conceits.<br /><br />The state has gradually fostered the idea that the total responsibility for the well being of all people is it's concern, whereas it itself is totally reliant on the people for its own continued existence (most of whom have already become hypnotised by state propaganda).<br /><br />There should be a way to correct the situation.<br />Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10368484489285348202014-07-02T12:40:35.565+01:002014-07-02T12:40:35.565+01:00I like Janice Joplin, noticed the lyric, Mr Ishmae...I like Janice Joplin, noticed the lyric, Mr Ishmael.<br /><br />Imagine her at Glasto. <br /><br />If she could stand long enough to get on stage, obviously.<br /><br />I see Leon Brittan is in the shit, at last. Beasting, quelle surprise, wonder how much shit will stick, and whether any will end up on Little Willy Hague?<br /><br />He's not gay, you know!<br /><br /><br />VincentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5873496348841440312014-07-02T12:29:23.065+01:002014-07-02T12:29:23.065+01:00That patricular poor bastard, mr doug shoulders wi...That patricular poor bastard, mr doug shoulders will be us, the PBC will not investigate, much less punish and reform itself.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80050136454074844092014-07-02T12:27:00.944+01:002014-07-02T12:27:00.944+01:00Other Dee obits cite Dee irritating David Frost, ...Other Dee obits cite Dee irritating David Frost, then part owner of LWT and Dee's employer; one can imagine the ghastly Frost taking umbrage at Dee's rising star. I actually remember Dee as the first of the vacuous airhead celebrity presenters, the progenitof of the likes of Parkinson, Wogan, Woss and Norton but I was just a kid, then, his obituarists do rank Dee as an independent and relatively decent bloke.<br /><br />I doubt that there was any misunderstanding, mrs woar, although, me, personally, compelled to study him at Warwick, I found Lawrence unpickupable and would be quite sanguine about him being banned again, this time for good.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40698856576511166192014-07-02T11:46:33.953+01:002014-07-02T11:46:33.953+01:00Apologies for scrappy writing; I did of course mea...Apologies for scrappy writing; I did of course mean to credit Wycliffe and Tyndale. To avoid misunderstanding, I'm not advocating people be refused permission to read Lady C (if they are having trouble sleeping) but there has been an estrangement, an alienation, from root literature. When seaweed is cut from its rock, it washes up the beach and rots. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18980260675703597512014-07-02T10:56:06.631+01:002014-07-02T10:56:06.631+01:00Re: Simon Dee; it is difficult to tell if he exagg...Re: Simon Dee; it is difficult to tell if he exaggerated his own life or not. The BBC said they sacked him over money, but they've never done that to anyone else. Dee said it was, amongst other things, for his rejection of the EEC and the fear that he might be able to influence a mass audience. <br /><br />The Tap blog has an interesting 2012 obituary, useful because the writer was in direct contact with him. Amongst other things, Dee did not like the way Savile and Freeman behaved with the children and teenagers, and said so. Although, of course, we only have this statement now and cannot prove what he said at the time. However, as a forthright person it is quite likely that he did speak out and make (more) enemies.<br /><br />http://the-tap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/simon-dee-told-bbc-freeman-and-savile.html Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-14572579409027501622014-07-02T10:54:21.467+01:002014-07-02T10:54:21.467+01:00I sometimes feel that William Tyndale haunts these...I sometimes feel that William Tyndale haunts these cyberpages; forty years ago I heard a BBC dramatisation of his life and execution and it has never left me. For those who don't know, Tyndale was a sixteenth century scholar who, translating from Greek and latin, and using the revolutionary printing press, created the first English Bible, feeling that the people, those who could read, should be able to read the Word of God in their own language, the Church had him garotted and his body burnt. His translation was drawn upon by those who, some years later, produced the King James Version, to which mrs woar alludes and which, even to a Godless heathenbastard like me, is a precious text. Uriah Gove, mr spit, at the Dof Ed, in a vanity project, recently reissued the KJV to schools, it remains to be seen if it will be taught, giving, as it does, such great offence to the servants of Ruin. I have mentioned before, that the Psalms are the birth of the Blues, Proverbs the key to understanding ourselves and the Sermon on the Mount a blueprint for our species survival, others will have other favourites.<br /><br />Before he became a caricature of himself, mr alphons, Mr Bob Dylan sang, If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself. It is hard to find good men in public life, public service and career should be mutually exclusive terms, yet, in the four yearly festival of competitive promising, we are assured that they are not. We are told, furthermore, that ordinary people can have a career, too, in McDonalds. It is fucking iniquitous and it is no wonder that we feel on our cheeks the hot breath of the Jihad.<br /><br />Elders, I believe, has more than one meaning, it slanders age as decrepitude, yet it also denotes one of probity and wisdom, not necessarily age-related. The child of the family but no kin to me calls me Mister, we shake hands and bow deeply when we meet and part. He loves it, having his own Mister; I think that's elderism.callmeshmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4107649087479608022014-07-02T10:30:41.875+01:002014-07-02T10:30:41.875+01:00Could never fathom the popularity of the likes of ...Could never fathom the popularity of the likes of Rantzen, Wogan, etc. They seem to have been on tv for ever..<br /><br />Zero talent for anything other than self promotion,<br />They are ugly.<br /><br />I stopped watching tv when Norton arrived…noisy as fuck with his noisy as fuck audience.. I’m learning new things these days.<br />I’m amazed at the amount of absolute shite on it…especially the PBC.<br />That new newsroom that they built and were wanking off about…they’ve reported fuck all about anything since it was built.<br />Can’t even investigate they’re own mess.<br />Pity the poor bastard who is tasked with bringing them to boot for their noncing<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71011336509627782152014-07-02T10:19:49.829+01:002014-07-02T10:19:49.829+01:00I remember Simon Dee being disappeared, but I can&...I remember Simon Dee being disappeared, but I can't remember what for...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43142707058483713242014-07-02T09:29:49.769+01:002014-07-02T09:29:49.769+01:00Could part of the overall problem be that we are g...Could part of the overall problem be that we are governed/ruled/controlled by a system of "Do as I say, not as I do."?<br />As a child I was always told we had to "look up" to our "elders" and "betters", but having become an octogenarian I have never found an elder that I could "look up to" and as for "betters".... well...where are they?Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90873433630628519142014-07-02T08:42:38.492+01:002014-07-02T08:42:38.492+01:00The serpent has grown very bold, Mr Ishmael, but h...The serpent has grown very bold, Mr Ishmael, but he still prefers the quiet, hypnotic attack which looks like a deal. He hates your blog because it gets through his current mask, and that alone is why you should persevere with it.<br /><br />He got a bloody good bite on somewhere after the Oil Shock, though, by managing to separate most of Britain's citizens from their KJV story hoard. Here, you don't want that old book. You want some DH Lawrence. <br /><br />I am not suggesting anyone has to believe any of it or accept wicked behaviour by priests. Rather, I hold that the access to the stories about a tribe a couple of thousand years ago and how it ended suddenly has an innoculatory effect. Translating it in to English and insisting that it must be available to all citizens was the saving grace of the messed-up monarch, James I of England, VI of Scotland. <br /><br />Look at how it gets straight to it by Genesis 3: there is evil and it will approach you, each one of you, personally and directly, no matter how humble or exalted you are. How much easier is it to groom a nation if they do not know even that?Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-13615260443097884542014-07-02T01:25:12.905+01:002014-07-02T01:25:12.905+01:00I wrote, a while ago, mr tnp, about Phil Spector t...I wrote, a while ago, mr tnp, about Phil Spector taking all our childhoods to prison with him; spoofing one of his hits I said: ...then he asked me to be his bride, always be right by his side, I felt so happy I almost cried, and then he shot me. Popular culture is as important as the other stuff.<br /><br />I don't know why it is, maybe you do, but the suborning even of open-air music to what mrs woar calls the grooming of the nation makes me despair; there is nowhere, no activity which Ruin hasn't colonised. I am glad the post meant something to you.<br /><br />If, mr inmate, you google youtube, cliff richard and the house of paedophiles, you will find a box of dark delights, similalry with Leon Brittan and paedophile cover-up. Careful though, it's rough out there.<br /><br /> Anonymous Bungalow Bill said...<br /><br /> "The chortling cancer that is Terry Wogan". That's why we come here. <br /><br />It's why I come here, too; these phrases just arrive here, only after writing them down do I or somebody else, in this case, you, recognise the poetry in them.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38829582141296105392014-07-02T00:32:05.077+01:002014-07-02T00:32:05.077+01:00You've been on fine form these past few weeks,...You've been on fine form these past few weeks, Mr Smith, but this post is undoubtedly your most profound.<br />the noblest prospecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17702374226317759485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26886862811802472542014-07-02T00:20:32.366+01:002014-07-02T00:20:32.366+01:00Just what the fuck is it with the PBC, along with ...Just what the fuck is it with the PBC, along with all those you have rightly condemned, there's more;Ex Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning charged with 41 sex offences.<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27525751<br />To think you will have your arse dragged to court for failing to fund these fuckers.inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38856369347867181182014-07-01T21:28:40.905+01:002014-07-01T21:28:40.905+01:00"The chortling cancer that is Terry Wogan&quo..."The chortling cancer that is Terry Wogan". That's why we come here. We should not forget Noel Edmonds, of course, another trailblazer for condescending, lachrymose plebshite.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64599191685146092472014-07-01T19:59:30.867+01:002014-07-01T19:59:30.867+01:00Somewhere, in here, mr dtp, I have a copy of the i...Somewhere, in here, mr dtp, I have a copy of the infamous Oz schoolkids' issue, the one which led to the prosecution, it was a bit grown up for me, too, at the time and most of the writers turned out to be detestable, Charles Shaar Murray, Mick Farren, Dennis, himself, Caoline Coon was OK, still is, and Richard Neville wrote a good book, Playpower? Poppower? It is around here somewhere, too. I will find it for you, it was counter culture stuff. As for the whole Underground movement, well, think Pink Floyd. It was a bit oppositional but ultimately just about money and sex and influence. Don't follow leaders. Not then, not now.<br /><br />I watched Dolly Parton Aw-Shucksing on the i-thing, mr verge and I thought of you. I used to rate her musicality and her inspiration, she could. break the heart of a wheelbarrow, bring a tear to a glass eye, but Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear that fucking karaoke shit was awful, poison, and a worthy topic for the most profane, obscene and transgressive of summaries; Glastonbury's Hooray Henrys, hillbillies for the day. Phil Everly would fart in his grave.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10304376155559732502014-07-01T19:14:57.523+01:002014-07-01T19:14:57.523+01:00Masochistically, I looked at a few Glastlegsbury c...Masochistically, I looked at a few Glastlegsbury clips on the BBC bogsite. Shockingly dire - care-home Karaoke. As your young Polish friend used to say, they are shitting in our faces. Brick - rubdown - well.<br /><br />verge.//Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50852057575418699982014-07-01T18:38:54.662+01:002014-07-01T18:38:54.662+01:00Ah, noncing - it's not like it used to be! I t...Ah, noncing - it's not like it used to be! I think there's a thing about Oz magazine on tonight and whilst before my time, I was led to believe it was a moral fight - us against them, the lower orders against the prurient, staid, censorious establishement all over Rupert Bear's cock. I dunno - in geological time maybe it was arse over tit.<br /><br /> Just as an aside, I was at that Rolf Harris gig at Glastonbury and I reckon it was the largest gig ever held there as it was the last year before they got security and the main stage starts an hour or so before the rest, so everyone fucked off there for breakfast ales. He was shite and the satire or comedy value wained pretty darn quick. Fuck 'im, the cunt. Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-21013883660721929852014-07-01T18:23:00.495+01:002014-07-01T18:23:00.495+01:00I hadn't thought of that mr doug shoulders but...I hadn't thought of that mr doug shoulders but yes, maybe That's Life was the dawn of Cruelty TeeVee; her's was a grisly crew of half-men, Cyril Fletcher and Giles Brandreth and some dork called Kieran, smarming their arses off, arch and conceited and yet somehow she morphed into some Yiddisher Momma, saviour of troubled children, ghastly, self-serving old witch.<br /><br />I would've thought, mrs woar, that Oz would feel well rid of him and have little appetite for a trial and that given his age extradition and trial could be argued away by his lawyers, no useful purpose et cetera. But it is interesting that there is an international view of this, Maxy did boast a roster of US showbiz giant clients, like Mafia boy, Sinatra but I don't suppose that would interest today's Uncle Sam./<br /><br />I bet the focus will be on defending his reported eleven million pounds fortune against all comers. Anyway you look at it it's all postcard from Hell stuff. Decades ago the News of the World might've been all over this stuff but that was before Rupe and Brooksie and Andy brought journalism to a whole new level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com